Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-21
ASSAY OFFICE RECEIPTS FOR 1887.

Grand .......Sl ,;S'4,667 %
Tie above represents in measure II Ill.,
$50 ounces OF gold and 3G, 222.35 ounces
OF silver The Territorial output OF pr
cious metal for 1887 will approach $780,
OOO,OO
The Iron Mask lode, owed by |. N.
Thompson and Geo. kerwin, situated four
miles from Bedford, St. Louis district, was
last week bonded to John Murray for four
months at $4,000. 1t is IL promising
lode.
The Nevada papers say that the Com
stock lode is returning to it's old status.
There are enormous quantities OF low grade
ore that could not tie worked at a profit
wears ago. but is now handled protitahly.
Several large bodies OF high grade ore have
been struck OF late, some averaging Sl3o
per ton. Two years ago houses in Virginia
City were being sold for tirewood. but now
there is not a vacant mouse IN the city;
rents have doubled electric lights are being
spread all over the place, and leisure men
are drinking and gambling as they dld IN
the bonanza days.
The Livingston Enterprise says OF the
Park County coal fields o. the regions
which by practical demonstration Will have
en- unlimited output OF coal we have the
the Rocky Fork fields, the Horr Bros. i'm
mense veins, the Trail creek and Pine creek
vast deposits, and directly west and i'm
| mediately tributary to Livingston the nu:'''
| Der OF veins and supply OF coal would seen!
| to be exhaustless, this region inclndln@-ol
mines already productive-the Spanger,
Craig. and last, but not icast, the plant ot
| the Livingston Coal e Cox: company, one
| OF the most important factors in the pros
perity of our town, and which, when 1t
shall have reached the bounds intended by
! it's projectors, will OF itself make the nahle
| of our town famous the world over by rea-
son of our coke works. There is still ID vast
undeveloped field to claim the attention OF
our future coal kings. and many opportu-
mites where a little judicious "looscn'ns
mn, by men of means who have the nerve
and faith in our county's coal resources
which they merit, will, after little time,
nlace them on an equal financial footing
with their fortunate English coal mine
owning brethren.
GENERAL NOTES.
| The monthly output OF shipping ore and
concentrates from the mines on South
Fork OF C,eur d'Alcne River, is estimated
as follows in tons: Bunker Hill and Sulli-
van. 900. Sierra Nevada, 800; Last Chance
900: TYLER and Stem Winder, 600; Tiger,
1000; Poorman, 300; bell group, zoo,
Granite, 300; other mines, 800; total,
4,2OO tons per month.
The Philipsburg Mail says tha recent rich
strike in the West Granite is evidently on
ton of n extensive body OF ore. winzo
will be sunk in the deposit, and within the
next thirty days a trial shipment. OF ore
will be made; the first from that mine.
The Scratchal and Blachmail mines at
Philipsburg are shipping their low grade
ores to Butte. and the high grades to
Omaha.
! The big mineral leads recently struck
near Livingston assays up to S4S2 IN gold
ard, five ounces Of silver.
| stamp mill is about to be erected in
Creyice Guich, on the Upper Yellowstone.
| Hiram Baker, OF Gardiner, has struck
rich placer diggngs across the river from
that town.